And a busy one for child protective services. Reports of not one but two exorcisms gone awry make us wonder: who needs demons when you have relatives like these? Eddie Uyesugi II, a 22-year-old pastor in training, was charged this week with felony confinement and misdemeanor battery for attacking a 14-year-old autistic boy in Bloomington, Indiana.

Eric Mezil, curator to Collection Lambert gallery in Avignon, France, is seriously (and justifiably) pissed—but also, apparently, a bit prone to hyperbole. Last Thursday, Mezil says, a Cambodian-born Frenchwoman named Sam Rindy“raped” one of the masterpieces in his care, an untitled painting by American artist Cy Twomby worth 2.

In a way, Crocs and Paris Hilton have a lot in common: both are
plastic-y and make unreasonable amounts of money; people are
obsessed with them (or rather obsessed with talking about them), and no one can really figure out why. The ugly croslite gardening clogs have been
the subject of newspaper trend and business stories for well over a year now -
we first spotted the apparently widespread fad in its early stages, via Allstonian hipster feet in and around the
Harvard Ave area two summers ago - and now they’re experiencing a media resurgence,
due mainly to the facts that business is still booming for the Crocs company,
and, more importantly, George W.

The Vatican’s Office of Migrants and Itinerant People has recently released a set of “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,” which functions as a kind of “Ten Commandments” for drivers. Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the office, says that he is charged with the souls of all ``itinerant” people, a demographic that apparently includes refugees, prostitutes, truck drivers and the homeless, in addition to everyday commuters, as far as I can tell.?xml:namespace>

Then comes word that Disney has optioned the rights to a script for a movie that amounts to "Groundhog Day set in a high school." We'll grant that the "day repeating over and over again" thing wasn't exactly original to begin with, but still: what the fuck? Why people gotta be shitting on awesomeness like that?

Boston PhoenixThe News, with James Van Der BeekPublished 1/5/2011 by Ashley Rigazio
Every news story should be accompanied by a reaction by Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek. Always. Struggling newspapers take note. Fortunately for us,...